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Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to the December 2020 edition of PC Update, the final issue for this year. It was a year that started with high hopes for the club with some interesting events like the 3D Printing Introduction and moves to transform the space in Moorabbin and we all know what happened from...Continue reading→

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University Last week, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued warnings to Australian health-care providers that it had observed an increase in cyber incidents targeting the sector. These attacks seem to be aimed at infiltrating networks and burrowing deep into their infrastructure before deploying further attacks. The ACSC is tasked with...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson I purchased a comprehensive set of tools for the Moorabbin Maker Room this morning, just in time for members of the Microcontroller Workshop SIG to enjoy with their face to face meeting tomorrow. The collection includes Soldering irons A vacuum desoldering station “Third hand” work holders and magnifiers Cutters and pliers A huge...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Windows 10   Time for a rant! Why oh why do manufacturers sell Win10 devices that only come with a 32GB eMMC drive that’s soldered to the board & has no way of increasing storage?   And why does MS make it impossible to update Windows unless you have 6GB free & make...Continue reading→

Roger Brown   DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too seriously and do pop over to Chit Chat and vote each week. Thanks to those of our members who occasionally ‘feature’ for taking the gentle humour in such good part. At long last, Covid...Continue reading→

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened East SIG’s November virtual meeting again via Zoom. The meeting then commenced with George Skarbek presenting Q&A. Q. As a consequence of the changeover from Office365 to G-Suite, I’m not receiving all the MelbPC emails being sent to me. It appears that some of my emails are being bounced...Continue reading→

Tim McQueen Breaking & Entering The extraordinary story of a hacker called ‘Alien’ Jeremy N Smith Scribe 2019, 292 Pages. Here’s a book on computing that can make one feel old. Smith outlines the career of ‘Alien’; a username selected when she started at MIT in 1998. Her early hacking consisted of invading ‘off limits’...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald I’ve been paying a lot of attention to Linux of late in the pages of PC Update, but of course the fact remains that the majority of members use Windows as their main operating system. And members love to hear from other members about what applications they’re using, in case there is some...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Two issues ago I detailed my switch to using a Linux distribution on some of my computers and a good number of other members also shared their Linux stories, and the reason they use the various distributions that they do. As was outlined in these articles, one advantage of Linux over Windows is...Continue reading→